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But in the former, the 6 dividend would be over the entire 2(3) divisor.

I have never heard of or seen an example of anyone using / and ÷ in different ways. If you want multiple terms in your divisor, either write it as a large fraction with all relevant terms in the dividend or divisor, or use parentheses. This just seems like sloppy notation to me.

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mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It was just because MarkDown doesn’t really make mathematical notation easy. The point is that with a slash, the 6 is over the entire 2(3) divisor. It’s the difference between these:
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You can even see that the automatic solution (in yellow) parses the two differently. In the first example, it correctly resolves the 2(3) first. But in the second, it parses the 6÷2 first, because it is left ambiguous.

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